I do not normally bother to read computer magazines. Take away all the adverts and the reviews of things I am not interested in and not a lot remains. But I used to read them in the 80s and this week I bought the Personal Computer World 30-year anniversary edition for a bit of a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Nostalgia'
Grand day out
January 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
I had the opportunity of getting some proper professional photos done by a Labour party photographer up in Westminster and decided to take up the offer and use it as an excuse to do a bit of tourism at the same time.
Ken Sent Me
January 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
The local branch of Game had a couple of CDs of old Sierra games in their sale. One had 5 Leisure Suit Larry games and the other had 6 Space Quest games on it, and they all work on XP. I couldn’t resist them, and have spent the last few days playing games that I […]
Christmas songs
December 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Music
I may not like Christmas much, apart from the much-needed week off, but I do have a soft spot for some Christmas songs.
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Live 8·Nostalgia
Mano Negra – disc two
November 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Mano Negra – disc two · Music
I had a look at the second disc in the Mano Negra 'Out of Time' DVD set this evening, and its not quite as good as the first one. It has a lot of good stuff but unlike the first disc there is a lot which is not so great. There are two main features, […]
I told you I was ill
November 10th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Life
Its fair to say that I had really not been looking forward to Dad’s funeral, but I was very much looking forward to it all being over. The time between him dying and the funeral has been strange. I have felt very vague, found it hard to concentrate at work, and more or less been […]
House of cards
October 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on House of cards · Politics
I'm loving the re-run of House of Cards on BBC Four as pat of their "Why Democracy?" season, eventhough I do not normally go for political drama. 1990 seems like a long time ago now, probably because it is, but this series has aged remarkably well. I doubt if many drama series from 17 years […]
Museum Pieces
July 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I do like the idea of this: hot on the heels of having a museum of computing at Bletchley Park comes the idea of a museum for computer games. It might sound like a trivial thing to devote a museum to, but if we can have whole rooms dedicated to silver thimbles in the V&A […]
Zaine Griff
July 13th, 2007 · Comments Off on Zaine Griff · Music
Before tonight I had never heard what Zaine Griff sounded like, and on a whim I did a search, and turned up this little encapsulation of the 80s. The irony is that Zaine Griff will always remind me of the 70s When I was at school my friend Barry (his name wasn’t Barry. Thats just […]
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays·Spizzenergi
Pointless but wonderful
April 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Technology
For all those heretics who used to have a Commodore C64 instead of the mighty ZX Spectrum, here is something which may bring back some memories – someone has written a theme to make his blog look like the command line interface from the C64. Having never had a C64 myself I can’t say how […]
